Another Way to Buy and Fresh Lettuce

Community Supported Agriculture

Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a way to partner with your local farmer to get regular fresh food for your kitchen.  You pay for a season's worth of food up front, then receive a bag of fresh produce every week (or every other week).  Peak City Gardens is part of a CSA here in the Springs called Pikes Peak Family Farms.  If you'd like a regular order from us, but find you'd like more variety than we can offer, then check out PPFF here: www.pikespeakfamilyfarms.com.  You choose from the offerings of three farms and two local food companies, indicating each week what you would like in your bag of local food.

Fresh lettuce ready for harvest

Our Green Salad Bowl Lettuce and our Leafy Lettuce Mix are now ready for harvest.  Put in your order today!

This week's harvest

Leafy Lettuce Mix - 4 oz	Green Salad Bowl Lettuce	White Stemmed Pac Choi
Siberian Kale	Red Russian Kale Almost all gone!	Lacinato "Dino" Kale
Genovese Basil	Evergreen Onions	Cilantro
Bright Lights Swiss Chard Almost all gone!

Did you know?

It is estimated that the average American meal travels about 1500 miles to get from farm to plate (source).

Free Home Delivery!

Free Home Delivery

Just in time for the busy holidays, we now offer free home delivery.  Order today, we'll deliver it to your door between 3pm and 6pm the next business day.  If you pay online and no one is home, we'll hang it high on your front door so that it is waiting for you when you get home.

Fresh lettuce ready for harvest

Our Green Salad Bowl Lettuce and our Leafy Lettuce Mix are now ready for harvest.  Put in your order today!

Wholesale Prices

The web site is now set up to show both retail and wholesale prices.  If you are buying produce for your grocery, restaurant, or other business, please create an account on our site and contact us to put you in the "wholesale" group.  When you come to our site, log in to your account and you'll see the wholesale prices when you put items in your cart.

Pac Choi Update

Our Pac Choi (a.k.a. Bok Choy or Yu Choi) is still growing.  The leaves are huge!

This week's harvest

Leafy Lettuce Mix - 4 oz	Green Salad Bowl Lettuce	White Stemmed Pac Choi
Siberian Kale	Red Russian Kale	Lacinato "Dino" Kale
Genovese Basil	Evergreen Onions	Cilantro
Bright Lights Swiss Chard

Did you know?

The thermal bags we use for delivery keep hot things hot and cold things cold, holding up to 30 lbs.   They are reusable!

Kale Chips and Pac Choi

Kale Chips

At the markets these last two Saturdays, we have had a bowl of kale chips for people to try.  Most of the people who tried them liked them.  A few weren't going to buy kale until they tried one. Here's the recipe that I used to make them:

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 medium bunch kale

• 1 tablespoon olive oil

• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, more or less to taste

• 1/4 teaspoon stevia powder, more or less to taste

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Wash kale leaves and dry very well.

3. Using a paring knife or kitchen scissors, trim out the ribs and discard. Cut the remaining kale into approximately two-inch pieces.

4. Place kale in a large bowl and toss gently but thoroughly, making sure that every last bit of kale leaf is coated with olive oil.

5. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Lay kale in a single layer on the baking sheet and sprinkle with salt. (If you have more kale than baking sheet, you may need to cook them in batches).

6. Bake for 8 – 12 minutes, just until crisp. Start checking at 8 minutes – don’t overcook or they’ll burn! I find that Lacinato kale cooks faster than curly kale. If your kale isn’t crisp after 12 minutes, keep baking until it is – check every couple minutes.

7. Remove from oven and let cool for a minute or two, then serve.

Pac Choi (a.k.a. Bok Choy) ready for harvest

We now have white stemmed pac choi ready for harvest.  I showed a sample to the manager at the Asian Pacific Market and he said that this particular variety is actually called Yu Choi.  Any way you say it, it is good in stir fry and other Asian dishes. Take a look!

This week's harvest

White Stemmed Pac Choi	Bright Lights Swiss Chard	Cilantro
Siberian Kale	Red Russian Kale	Lacinato "Dino" Kale
Genovese Basil	Evergreen Onions

Did you know?

Do you want to keep your fresh herbs fresh?  Put them in a glass canning jar with about an inch of water on the bottom.  Put a lid on the jar and store it in your refrigerator.  The herbs will last for a month or more.

Holiday Market this Saturday

Holiday Market this Saturday at JMCA

We will be at James Madison Charter Academy this Saturday, December 10, for a very special Holiday Market. Come and join us for Crafts, Artists, and Vendors like Peak City Gardens!

Admission is free and every adult will receive an entry for a drawing held every 30 minutes.

Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Place: 660 Syracuse Street in Widefield, east of the intersection I-25 and Mesa Ridge Parkway

Evergreen Onions ready for harvest

We now have Evergreen Onions ready for harvest. They are "scallions" with minimal bulbs and are sold in bunches of six. Take a look!

This week's harvest

Sage	Bright Lights Swiss Chard	Cilantro
Siberian Kale	Red Russian Kale	Lacinato "Dino" Kale
Genovese Basil	Evergreen Onions

Did you know?

The word "scallion" comes from the Anglo-Norman French scaloun, based on Latin Ascalonia (caepa) ‘(onion) of Ascalon,’ a port in ancient Palestine.